Swolecore - Muscular Skin & Scales Mod / Resource

Every personal muscular edit I wanted for my DT male bodies, packed up into a mod / resource for anyone who might enjoy it. Made for Midlander, Highlander, Miqo, Aura, Viera & Elezen.


∴ ∵ ∴ ∵ INCLUDES ∴ ∵ ∴ ∵

⦿ Custom cephalic bicep veins.

⦿ Modified TB2 Hunk textures with a slight reflective skin shine, softer elbows, knees and a few personal touches.

⦿ Improved DT Aura Scales in natural, bone-white, and (Beta) scaleless variants. With Westlaketea V1 Scales+

⦿ Lao Meo's Scaleless Aura faces (Beta)

⦿ My own personal TBSE-Q Customize+ Templates (copy paste from https://ko-fi.com/s/cae2c8d4a6).

⦿ Custom K-Type body hair arrangement. (Treasure trail + feint arm hair.)

⦿ Double strength Aura Scale normals. (Means the scales will reflect light and shadow more dramatically. Can be adjusted with the editable psd.)

⦿ Subsurface scattering (Beta) to fingers, toes, and da pp. (Means light should shine through these areas more realistically.)

⦿ Smooth nails (because for whatever reason they were not smooth on TB2 Hunk normals).

⦿ Editable PSD’s are too large for XMA so they can be downloaded free here: https://ko-fi.com/s/cae2c8d4a6

⦿ Please let me know if something is broken, I’ve never made a mod this big before.



∴ ∵ ∴ ∵ HOW TO USE ∴ ∵ ∴ ∵

1. You can simply use the included modpack for the textures, cephalic veins etc.

2. You can load up my TBSE-Q Customize+ Templates to get my body proportions. Just follow the instructions below.

3. Glamourer muscle settings: I typically set mine between 150-200.

4. You can use the free PSD to edit any of the textures / adjust hair etc to your liking. I made a guide on how to upload these textures in Textools: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RkqpX3iJsOHSDIKi23n48oeEf4D-AhYdKGIeQPtSMVI/edit



∴ ∵ ∴ ∵ TBSE-Q C+ CODES FOR COPY PASTA ∴ ∵ ∴ ∵

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Make sure you have TBSE-Q installed from https://www.nexusmods.com/finalfantasy14/mods/1838

2. Copy one of my race specific template codes from the product description at https://ko-fi.com/s/cae2c8d4a6

3. In Customize+, "Templates" tab, bottom left corner, 3rd icon is "Try to import a template from your clipboard." Click that and name it.

4. Then switch to the "Profiles" tab and enable the template you just created and named.

5. Glamourer muscle settings: I typically set mine between 100-200.



∴ ∵ ∴ ∵ CREDITS ∴ ∵ ∴ ∵

⦿ Tzar: https://x.com/bald_king & Red: https://heliosphere.app/user/red
For TBSE/TB2 body textures

⦿ Westlaketea: https://x.com/westlaketea
For Scales+ v1
(For V2 Scales+ be sure to check out Westlake's release here: https://eastlaketea.tumblr.com/post/758642400182894592/scales-dt )

⦿ Lao Meo: https://x.com/JLaoMeo
For scaleless aura face models

⦿ ScionSinner: https://x.com/scionsinner
For scaleless aura neck seams

⦿ QadanXIV: https://next.nexusmods.com/profile/QadanXIV & Smurf: https://x.com/Smurf_FFXIV For TBSE-Q

⦿ Khalean: https://x.com/KhaleanXIV
For cephalic bicep veins + Skin Edits + DT Aura Scale Edits



∴ ∵ ∴ ∵ TOS ∴ ∵ ∴ ∵

⦿ No Refunds on digital products.

⦿ For credited contributors, you must check their terms of use. You must contact Westlaketea to inquire about using Scales+ in your mod.

⦿ For my work on Swolecore, use it how you like and just give credit where it's due.

⦿ Synergy Ko-Fi Mod Shop: https://ko-fi.com/synergy

⦿ My X/Twitter: https://x.com/khaleanxiv

⦿ My Carrd: https://khalean.carrd.co/



∴ ∵ ∴ ∵ CHANGE LOG ∴ ∵ ∴ ∵

⦿ 2024-08-18 - V1.02 - Cleaned up the Aura Scales layers on "2. Body Normals - [K] Swolcore v1.02.psd" only. Also created a guide since people asking how to update the textures: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RkqpX3iJsOHSDIKi23n48oeEf4D-AhYdKGIeQPtSMVI/edit

⦿ 2024-08-14 - V1.01 - Fixed a user reported texture overlap where scales were bleeding onto the foot. (This occurred because I used DT scales as the base, which were never made for TBSE feet, and did not notice that the bleed slightly overlapped the foot UVs.) PSD + PMP updated. Good catch, keep em comin!
keep em comin!